May not be the keyboard - but the plug on the computer. Is it PS2 or USB? If one, try a keyboard for the other and see if it works. ie - if it's PS2, give a USB keyboard a try.

Be well,
Mike in Zone 8, Texas
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On Fri, October 22, 2010 10:56 am, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> No mine, my father's...
>
>
> He calls me to tell me that the keyboard on his freshly Ubuntu 10.10
> install quit working. He can't even login because he can't type the
> password.
>
> I tried the on-screen keyboard, which gets blattanly ignored too, but I
> am unfamiliar with the resource, so I could not draw anything conclusive
> out of it.
>
> I suspected a hardware failure, so I brought the keyboard home and it
> tested OK.
>
>
> I went back to his home and was able to manipulate the BIOS and get to
> the GRUB menu by holding down the left shift key on boot, got a shell,
> renamed his home directory to bypass whatever configuration he might
> inadvertently introduced, did dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and
> rebooted.
>
> No keyboard... :(
>
>
> WHAT IN THE $#!&^* WORLD HAPPENED TO THE KEYBOARD!!!!
>
>
> Other that a fresh re-install I don't know what to do...
>
>
> I hope somebody here has a better idea.
> ET